Entertainment Weekly recently published our selection of the 100 best Star Wars characters. The ranking was compiled by my wonderful colleagues, and I was happy to celebrate luminaries from the galaxy far, far away. But the list hurt my heart. It honored the current Star Wars canon, which is a broken history.

I grew up long before the Disney takeover, when the Expanded Universe spread through books and comics into videogames and customizable card games. I remember when Leia and Han had twins. I remember the Empire's shadows. I remember so, so many Wedge Antilles books.